“Birth Skin / Death Leather”

“Mr. electric disappears and re-appears like a smiling/snarling phantom.

dawn: wooing the blue from the crawling eyes of babies

midday: vanished. grinning through the sweat pores of harlots and whores.

sundown: opening a cloak of tentacles…

preaching the gospel of cracked crystal beaks.

dusk: peeling back the birth skin like wrapping paper around a virgin.

vanish again.

twilight: march on electric children!

and you, with your self righteous army of crotches spewing paper children,

his death hole is deeper.

and stronger than love.”

The difference is very notorious, the second albumMarch on Electric Children shows a difference in terms of composition but also lyrics.

Metaphors and rhymes are more present and the themes appear to be watered down from the political issues in the first record.

The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn - Album

“Cecilia And The Silhouette Saloon”

“skull = noise nest.

TV = fuck test.

mirror = siamese gun kiss.

sugar = birth bait.

murder = loves fate.

death distills the camouflage from our dance.

death inverts the red from romance.

Death x-rays the angels of chance.

death; the anti mirror of infants.

Like a picture hiding beneath the digital Avalanche.”

Fucking Greatest Hits!

“Happy birthday gelatins smearing bruises on your chin

There’s cake but no mouth, conch but no sound

Glossy skeletons boyfriends but no friends

And that birthday greeting on you face

Reads one more year of smiles faked.

Ring! Ring! Ring out the gong!

So now you’ve made it to the top of their list

Congratulations you’re fucking’s greatest hit!

Behind husks of leather, photo albums shield their laughter

You thought they’d make you breakfast the morning after?

Your fantasy season gangrened off the calendar”

The band´s third record – Burn Piano Island, Burn is a clear moving forward from their all-in approach they had been preaching their entire career adding some different themes to the lyrics and some new instruments like synths and a little piano to the mix.

Towards the band´s last two records, lyrics became even more politically oriented and the pop hooks were more present than ever. Songs like “Feed me to the Forest!” and “Trash Flavored Trash” from Crimes are a clear criticism to both, the over industrialization of the world and the news/media giving out empty messages about everything happening in the planet. On their latest album:

Young Machetes the lyrics have strong social criticism but also have mystical twists with strength and challenging cultural complaints.

Like this “Set Fire to the Face on Fire” video introduced by legendary Black Flag singer Henry Rollins.

If you want to know what did Jordan Billie thought of his own records, you can check this cool interview made by the pals at Noisey.com